A Big Sur Podcast
A Big Sur Podcast
An ongoing conversation with people from near and far about Big Sur's past, present, and future. A Big Sur Podcast interprets “community” to mean ALL people from around the world who are curious about, and who care about, the preservation and restoration of the wild and rural character of Big Sur. Stories are told by visitors and residents, plumbers and linesmen, musicians and authors, dancers and jugglers and others. Sometimes we drift (way) off-topic into the arts, sciences, personal stories, gossip, politics, philosophy, ornithology, Henry Miller, and our zeitgeist in general. We like that!
The opinions expressed here belong to the people who express them. They may or may not line up with yours, mine, or your neighbor’s — and that’s exactly the point. Different perspectives, lived experiences, and even wildly clashing views are what make conversations worth listening to: enriching, infuriating, life-affirming, and sometimes all three at once.
If you are planning a visit to Big Sur and you listen to some of the folks on this Podcast talk about their love of the place your visit will probably be a lot more rewarding. Please email magnus@henrymiller.org with any comments, critique & suggestions.
Music intro clip courtesy John Holm: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DZ06evO0Rh2QU
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A Big Sur Podcast
#41 Lovers of The Place: A conversation between Pico Iyer and Cyprian Consiglio
A conversation between two very accomplished writers and thinkers:
Pico Iyer & Father Cyprian Consiglio.
This wonderful episode was recorded pre-covid on June 6, 2018! Please share it!)
The two of them, with the help of the audience, touch on the meaning of life and what happens after death (!), Narcissus and Goldmund, Henry Miller, Thomas Merton, the Trappist's life, Silence, the Monastic Life, the Apophatic tradition, Leonard Cohen, Vaclav Havel, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Annie Dillard, Emily Dickinson, the Camaldoli Hermitage, Henry Miller (yes! again!), EROS as pre sexual and post genital, and much, much more...
Books by Pico Iyer
Falling Off the Map: Some Lonely Places of The World
The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere
The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
Books by Father Cyprian Consiglio
The God Who Gave You Birth: A Spirituality of Kenosis
Spirit, Soul, Body: Toward an Integral Christian Spirituality
Prayer in the Cave of the Heart: The Universal Call to Contemplation
Music by Father Cyprian Consiglio
On Spotify
On YouTube
If you want to read/buy any of these books we prefer you come for a visit to either the Camaldoli Hermitage bookstore or the Henry Miller Library bookstore. As much as Amazon, with their fast delivery and reduced price, helps to spread the word, small bookstores provide a service worth supporting! Thank
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